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A woman stands with the children of the husband and wife found dead yesterday at 221 E. 30th St. Neither child was hurt, police said.

LORAIN -- An estranged husband, his wife and the man staying with her were all found dead yesterday on East 30th Street in what authorities believe is a double-murder and suicide.

All three were found dead in a bedroom from gunshot wounds, according to the county coroner.

Police have identified the wife as Halyna Whitney, of Lorain, and her acquaintance as 33-year-old William Everett.

Police have said Halyna's estranged husband was also found dead, but would not release his name last night. However, the county auditor's website lists the owner of the home at 221 E. 30th St. as Shone Whitney and court records from a domestic violence incident in 2011 confirm Shone Whitney as Halyna Whitney's husband. Whitney purchased the house in 2006.

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The exact relationship between Halyna Whitney and Everett Jr. is unknown at this time, but neighbors referred to him as her "boyfriend."

Police were called to the home at 4 p.m. by Halyna's father after he stopped by to check on her and found the bodies.

Neighbors said police swarmed the house with guns drawn not long after and the father and his grandchildren exited minutes after police arrived. The family's security alarm was sounding when police entered, a neighbor said.

The couple's two children were not injured, said Lt. Roger Watkins.

"The children were not harmed in anyway and are in the safe custody of their maternal grandfather right now," Watkins said.

The slain couple's 7-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son were in the home at the time of the deaths, said county coroner Dr. Stephen Evans.

Evans confirmed that the gunshot wounds were consistent with a double homicide and a suicide, but he said authorities are still trying to determine exactly who shot who.

"That's the investigation," he said. "That's what we need to figure out, who killed who, who shot who. Obviously we have opinions from the situation, but we don't want to jump to conclusions."

Weapons were found at the scene, but police would not release the type of gun used in the crime.

Shone Whitney was previously arrested in Oct. 2011 for domestic violence, but no protection order was in place between the two at the time of the deaths, police said. Halyna Whitney bailed Shone out of jail during the domestic violence case, court records show.

Shone Whitney worked for Kraft Power, based in Massillon. His work truck was towed from the scene yesterday.

Neighbors described the Whitneys as a relatively quiet family, who had a few domestic disturbances in the past.

Next door neighbor D.J. Curry said he would see Shone working on cars occasionally. He described Shone as a man who seemed to constantly be working.

"That's all the guy did, work all the time," Curry said.

He said the family was very quiet.

"I never heard anything," he said. "I've had my windows open when they had their windows open, and I couldn't even hear their T.V."

Ernie and Connie Rios have lived across the street from 221 E. 30th Street for about a year.

"They stayed to themselves a lot of the time," Ernie Rios said.

They said Shone had moved out after a February arrest in which police pinned him to the ground and handcuffed him in the street outside his home. Court records show he was arrested for disorderly conduct at that time.

In March -- roughly a month after Shone had moved out --Everett Jr. started staying at the house frequently, Ernie Rios estimated.

Shone still came by often to see the children, Ernie Rios said. He said he never saw Shone and Everett at the house at the same time and was not sure if they knew each other.

Connie Rios said she last saw Halyna waiting for her daughter at the school bus stop on Friday afternoon. Both said they noticed Shone's work truck parked outside Saturday afternoon, but noted it had left when they went to bed at about 11 p.m.

They noticed it parked outside again Sunday morning, hours before police entered the home. They said they'd noticed it because Shone usually parked in front of his East 30th Street home, but this time he had parked farther down the block.

Ernie Rios said he did not hear gunshots, but he did recall hearing yelling at about 4 a.m. He said he could not be sure if it came from the house or if it came from people cutting through the alleyway nearby.